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Module 10 · Incident Response Planning

Incident Response Planning

The incident response lifecycle, playbooks, and the OT-specific challenges of responding to an incident without shutting down a live process.

Incident response follows a standard lifecycle — preparation, detection & analysis, containment, eradication & recovery, and post-incident review — but OT incident response adds a constraint IT playbooks don't usually face: you may not be able to simply isolate or power down an affected system without triggering a safety or production event. This module covers building a playbook for a specific incident type, the OT-specific decision tree for containment-vs-continued-operation, and why post-incident lessons-learned reviews matter as much as the response itself.

By the end of this module you should be able to draft a basic incident response playbook and identify its OT-specific containment tradeoffs — the exact deliverable Module 14's enterprise incident response plan project builds out in full.

Free related reading in this studio
→ Article: Incident Response & the SOC — Detecting, Containing & Recovering from Attacks→ Article: OT/ICS Incident Response and Recovery

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